Yasmine Mohammed

Yasmine Mohammed (Arabic: يَاسَمِين مُحَمَّد, romanized: Yāsamīn Muḥammad) is a Canadian university instructor, human rights activist and author. Mohammed escaped from a forced, abusive marriage to Al-Qaeda operative Essam Marzouk and became an advocate for freethinkers from Muslim communities through her non-profit organization Free Hearts Free Minds. She is a member of the Center for Inquiry Speaker's Bureau and is the co-founder and co-director of the CLARITy Coalition. Yasmine is the author of Unveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims. Through her nonprofit organization Free Hearts Free Minds, she supports closeted ex-Muslims from Muslim-majority countries and across the globe. She also coordinates an online campaign called No Hijab Day on February 1st to raise awareness against normalizing hijab on World Hijab Day, using the hashtags #FreeFromHijab and #NoHijabDay. Mohammed has been interviewed by Sam Harris and was mentioned by Real Time with Bill Maher twice.